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Glendale City Administrator Benjamin DeClue says St. Louis and St. Louis County should adopt a council-manager form of government to avoid corruption.

Warson Woods appears to be ending its bid for merging its police services with that of neighboring Glendale after Glendale backed out of the proposal earlier this week. “The city of Warson Woods has been considering contracting our policing services with the city of Glendale. The ability to do so is no longer available to Warson Woods,” Warson Woods Mayor Larry Howe said in a statement on Monday, June 7.  Glendale City Administrator Benjamin DeClue said the city needed to fill a po...

For Glendale officials, ensuring safety for emergency responders and others is worth continuing the long-time practice of the city paying for and performing snow removal on private streets.

The Glendale Board of Aldermen recently agreed to postpone the city’s annual JazzFest until sometime in the fall – possibly Oct. 11 — though no exact date has been set. The free festival, which began in 1999, is typically held the Friday before Memorial Day on the grounds of Glendale City Hall, located at  424 N. Sappington Road.  “We want to have a safe and successful event, and I think giving everyone a few extra months to get vaccinated will help us with that,”...

The Glendale Board of Aldermen on Dec. 7 unanimously agreed to have Kirkwood provide its fire chief, assistant fire chief and a fire department administrative associate to Glendale, with service starting on Jan. 1, 2021. On Jan. 1, Glendale also begins its full dispatching and ambulance service agreement with Kirkwood, which runs through Dec. 31, 2025. Glendale has been without a permanent fire chief since October 2019 when part-time chief, Curtis VanGaasbeek, left to become assistant fire chie...